Welcome to the 
BELMONT ARTS COLLABORATIVE
Charlottesville's Space to Create!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Belmont Arts Collaborative (BAC) provides an accessible space
for artists to make art that engages and educates a diverse community

Continued donations may be made on our website  belmontarts.org or by mail (221 Carlton Road, Suite 3, Charlottesville, VA 22902)

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Rock Paint-A-Thon and Fundraiser and who supported the BAC Rock Concert on Sept. 12, and to those who supported the Balcony Concert on October 8. 

Together, we've raised over $12,000 to help keep the BAC alive for the future!

We need to raise at least $12,000 more by the end of the year to meet our fundraising goal

 

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Please read this letter from the Board of Directors of the Belmont Arts Collaborative

 

Dear Friend of the Belmont Arts Collaborative,

 

 

In the teeth of the COVID-19 pandemic, we know you are receiving appeals daily, and they come in all forms – mail, email, online, and on TV. Because you have shared artistic experiences with us at the Belmont Arts Collaborative, we hope you’ll read on, and perhaps, include us in your personal effort to help Charlottesville survive and thrive.

 

The BAC has a unique place in the Charlottesville arts community.  Our motto, “Charlottesville’s Space To Create” defines who we are and what we offer.  We are the place where individual artists and small arts organizations can create and share their art. Our commitment to maintaining and providing affordable rehearsal and performance facilities for artists who don’t have their own home means that we get to support and share art that might otherwise never see the light of day. New plays, new performers, new dances – we are the incubator of new art and we are needed in our city.

 

We’re not fancy. Our black box theater isn’t fitted with elaborate lighting or sound systems. Our rehearsal spaces are a bit spartan. Our front-of-house facilities aren’t elaborate. But none of that matters when we work together in a rehearsal studio to make something beautiful and inspiring. None of that matters when we sit in our darkened theater together and experience something that’s never happened before, something that makes us laugh, or cry, or think, or take action. We offer experiences that make us better than we were. We’re not fancy, but we are needed in our city.

 

Like many, if not most, of the arts organizations around the world, the BAC is a potential casualty of the economic crises precipitated by the pandemic. Even though we are not performing or rehearsing, even though we are an entirely volunteer organization with no staff payroll, we still have to pay rent and utilities while we’re shut down. Because of our commitment to serve the entire arts community by keeping the rental rates for our facilities as low as possible, we always operate on a razor-thin edge between financial solvency and closing our doors. And so, we add our request to the many already out there. If you value what we do, if your means allow, please make a tax-deductible contribution to the BAC now.

 

If you can, please donate by regular mail. This will eliminate the costs of online processing and ensure that every cent of your contribution is spent to keep the BAC alive. Our mailing address is 221 Carlton Rd. Suite 3, Charlottesville, VA 22902.

 

Thank you. We look forward to seeing you when the lights come on in our space again.

 

 

The Board of Directors

Belmont Arts Collaborative

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